I once had an annoying coworker that used the word "so" way too much. I started keeping track of the number of times that he said the word "so" in meetings. I had a max of 50 and an average of around 30. I kept this spreadsheet for over a year before I got laid off.

I read the atlas for fun...but then again, I already know I need to get a life.

When on the news, they said the pilots were not sleeping or arguing, my mind totally went THERE. When they said they were on their laptops, I think I said something like, "Thank God!" And, my dad was so confused.

did the same thing in my pharmacy. was so bored we decided to graph incidence of customers picking up their viagra scripts on a day of the week basis. we naturally thought that the highest frequency would occur on a friday or saturday...turns out tuesdays.

I went through a phase where I liked to chart everything. Now I'm in a phase were I like to identify the types of clouds I see on my daily walk. It keeps me out of trouble, as when my mind wanders I attempt entertaining but impractical projects. Or needlework.

However, since you had a 65% increase from June to July. I have a hypothesis that you, Dr Grumpy, live in the southern part of the US. My idea being that in the hottest part of summer, you would be have "inside" hobbies to enjoy air conditioning.

Any bets that it was actually Grumpy who created this chart and is projecting it onto a strange patient after realizing that it was a completely ridiculous thing to do but not wanting it to go to waste.

what scares me is that since i relatively recently discovered your blog, the first thing i noticed when seeing this graph (which was then confirmed by the comments) is that i'm pretty sure you blogged more on vacation than while in the office. & that's a little messed up. i'm just sayin'.... ;-)

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